Asexuality and the Invention of “Normal”: Across Sex, Gender, & Orientation
Title of Event: Asexuality and the Invention of “Normal”: Across Sex, Gender, & Orientation
Description of Event:
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Ethics and Ethical Behavior
Self as Instrument: Visual, Sensory, and Intuitive Wisdom
Title of Event: Self as Instrument: Visual, Sensory, and Intuitive Wisdom
Date of Event: June 5, 2026
Time of Event: 3-6:15 p.m. PT
Location: Online Synchronous
Sex Therapy (ST) Training:
ST1. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
Presenter/Speaker: Paula
Contact Name: Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE
Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810
Contact Email: hello@everyonedeservessexed.com
Navigating Sexual Trauma Along the Reproductive Path
Title of Event: Navigating Sexual Trauma Along the Reproductive Path
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2026 SSTAR Annual Meeting - Sexuality in Connection: A Systemic Perspective
Title of Event: 2026 SSTAR Annual Meeting - Sexuality in Connection: A Systemic Perspective
Description of Event:
The conference will explore how sexuality is shaped by interpersonal dynamics, relational contexts, broader systemic influences, and technology. Emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge research with clinical applications, we will highlight how political, cultural, legal, relational, and digital systems surrounding individuals can shape sexuality and inform both practice and research in sexual health.
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Slide Decks for Health & Wellness Professionals
Title of Event: Slide Decks for Health & Wellness Professionals
Description of Event:
Creating slide decks for presentations can be one of the most useful ways to build engaging workshops and trainings, but can also be intimidating, overwhelming, and confusing. Having spent the last five years running virtual workshops for sexuality and mental health professionals and having developed over a dozen slide decks with multiple iterations, I’ve learned how to build accessible, ethically sourced, interactive slides.
6-hour AASECT Group Supervision
Title of Event: 6-hour AASECT Group Supervision
Description of Event:
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I’m excited to personally invite you to the upcoming 6-hour AASECT Group Supervision, starting on March 20, 2026. This group supervision is designed to provide a safe, collaborative space for you to enhance your skills, deepen your knowledge, and grow professionally.
Group supervision dates:
- Friday, March 20, 2026
- Friday, April 3, 2026
- Friday, April 17, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM HST
Engaged Pedagogy, Andragogy & Evaluation of Practice for Sexuality Professionals
Title of Event: Engaged Pedagogy, Andragogy & Evaluation of Practice for Sexuality Professionals
Description of Event:
This three-part series invites participants to reflect on, identify and engage their own teaching philosophy in a transformative way which centers the wholeness and humanity of the learning community. Building on this, participants will examine and question ways in which to apply their teaching philosophy in virtual learning spaces, while integrating a sustainable and mutually informing evaluation of practice.
Date of Event: April 25, 2026
Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training
Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training
Description of Event:
There are numerous exciting and effective somatic modalities currently in the field. As a graduate of the Somatic Counseling Psychology Program at Naropa University (2009), I received training in many of the best: Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Therapy, Hakomi, Dance/Movement Therapy, the Moving Cycle, Body-Mind Centering, and Authentic Movement.
Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships
Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships
Description of Event:
My next S-CST For Couples Therapy is happening in Lafayette, Colorado March 27th - 29th. It will be springtime in Colorado!
The Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy for Couples Therapy training that I offer is based on my book Whole-Body Sex and my upcoming book on embodied intimacy and offers the skills, interventions, and assessment frameworks for therapists to incorporate into their practice with their own clinical style.
Build a Community of Colleagues and Ethics CE: Understanding and Working with Erotic Transference and Counter Transference
Title of Event: Build a Community of Colleagues and Ethics CE: “Understanding and Working with Erotic Transference and Counter Transference
Description of Event:
Healers that work with erotically marginalized clients report feelings of isolation and being “the only one” and are often erotically marginalized themselves. One way that professionals can ease those feelings is to build a community of colleagues who also work with the erotically marginalized (Constantinides, Sennott, & Chandler, 2019).